ABSTRACT
In the division of labor of the social sciences, social anthropology has been the science of the sociocultural microcosm and has developed a method and style of inquiry appropriate to this task. As the science of the sociocultural microcosm, anthropology is thus the science of "intersubjectivity," as phenomenologists like to call it, in its natural habitat, at the grass roots. The class, religious and other cleavages which differentiate its citizens appear in everyday life in the structure of the complexes of microcosms — in the ways in which microcosms typically overlap, or fail to overlap, both among themselves and with primordial solidarities. Man has lived in sociocultural microcosms since the Pleistocene. Fieldwork studies of sociocultural microcosms may be of some assistance in surmounting some of the difficulties of census and attitude survey research. Turkey is less well studied by social scientists, particularly on the microcosmic level.
